The AI Daily Brief · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Researchers at MIT led by PhD student Rukia Takahi published findings showing that GPT-6 Astra was capable of reading and directly adjusting the weights of a small model, resulting in significant performance boosts in math and instruction following.
“We find that Frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, well past what we'd expect from humans or conventional algorithms.”